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I recently went on a road trip with a dear friend of mine to Telluride, Colorado. She was going to be assisting at a Ashtanga Yoga workshop, and I wanted to hit the road and do some shooting.
This lovely morning I woke up to a dusting of snow on the sidewalk and it was on!
I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I did taking them.
My dear friend Marne and I had a great time this past Saturday out in the mountain area of San Diego. She was feeling the itch to get away from the city for a bit, and I having spent the last 4 1/2 years where there are no mountains, I was up for it too. We started out with a great hike along the Pacific Crest Trail up near Mt Laguna. The views down to the desert from 6,000 feet are captivating.
Afterwards, we were considering another hike, but I was starting to get a couple blisters. I had been wanting to go back out to Valley of the Moon for years since my first visit, and we were close enough, so we went out. The road in to the Valley is a bit sketchy (sketchy = fun if you have an X-Terra and like to let it loose), at one point Steve McQueen, my X-Terra, was up on three wheels about to do a frontwards wheelie coming down the hill into the Valley.
We found an excellent group of boulders to scramble up, and hung out in the sun, soaking it in for a while. It was great to be outdoors, and one with the elements. On the way back Marne used her camera to catch a video clip of the road conditions, as well as me singing along with some Pearl Jam (can you tell who’s voice is whose?).
And here are a few pictures:
And we finished the Epic day with an Epic beer!
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I had a chance to run home to San Diego for a few days over Christmas. Here are a few pictures from the trip. The first two were from a small town in Texas on I-10 just as the sun was setting. The next five were taken at White Sands National Monument. Unfortunately, I ended up having to go home early when Heather’s dog, Moen, had to be put down. I really miss him.
On the way back I grabbed a sunset in the Imperial Valley, and a Sun/Moonrise on the I-10 coming back into Texas.
It was a bitter sweet trip, but I hope you enjoy the photos.
The Barton Creek Greenbelt has been beckoning for a little over a year for Heather and I to come back and take the hike down to Sculpture Falls. We had gone a couple times before with our good friends Amber and Sarah (We’ll be visiting them in South-East Asia this summer if we can wrangle up some duckets).
With the wild outdoors calling and our winter-leaguered & pent up dogs, Moen and Luke, Heather and I decided to use the weekends to walk on dirt instead of treadmills.
Barton Creek Greenbelt and Sculpture Falls.
This is a beautiful hike that can be approached 2 ways. One is from MoPac and 360, and the other from a few miles west off of 360 through a residential area.
Hiking in from MoPac is probably the way to go unless you take supplemental oxygen, as the hike back up to the residential area is about a 10-15% grade for about a quarter of a mile.
The dogs love to cut loose at Sculture Falls. Luke, our Chow/Corgy (Chorgy), goes maniacal! He has two speeds fast and faster, that is until he hits a rock or slips on rocks, for about a second, and then he’s off again.
Moen’s slowed down a bit over the past 2 years, but still enjoys trotting along and getting wet.
We’ve also taken the dogs out to Bull Creek and Lake Georgetown. They were nice in their own right. But Barton Greenbelt such a great hike, and if someone was enterprising enough they could start a Sherpa outfit on the backside of this hike and make a pretty penny!
Here is a great resource for hiking in AustinĂ‚Â
I started giving it some thought as my own wedding approached. I had the other Heather in my life, Heather Van Gaale from San Diego flying in soon and we were talking often. We would reminisce about the hijinx we would get into while shooting weddings together. That’s fun. That’s exciting. That’s why I started shooting weddings, for the energy and the great photos you can get from each wedding. Maybe it’s just one photo that blows your mind from any given event, but every Saturday you photographed was one of the best Saturdays ever for a group of people. And that was fun to be a part of.
After being gone for a year in Thailand, and living in Austin for another 18 months I recognized I missed it.
In that light I’ve decided to throw my hat back into the ring and dust off the camera, and possibly document some of those Saturdays.
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